Brilliant Quotes - Page 34

• I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Strong, Thinking, Staff

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• I've got like a weird bond with horses. I'm kind of a horse whisperer, I don't know what it is. I'm not great on a horse. I'm getting better, but I'm not brilliant. So yeah, I've spent a lot of time with horses. They're great creatures, I love them. I do love riding them when I get the chance to.

  Kit Harington

  Horse, Get Better, Riding

  Source: collider.com

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• It makes it easier, if you can't do an American accent. I don't know. It's different. I played a character in Never Let Me Go where the script for my character was very sparse, and I enjoyed it. With Never Let Me Go, I had a whole book written from my character's point of view, so I always knew where I was. But, with Ryan [Gosling], it was just easy. He's such a brilliant actor and he is so prepared. He doesn't have to warm himself up to be in a scene. He's just in it. It draws you in, in a way.

  Carey Mulligan

  Book, Character, Views

  Source: collider.com

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• When somebody's ego is in service of really brilliant, innovative work, it's hard to, cause I'm such an asshole, it's hard to criticize their failures as a human sometimes.

  Claire Danes

  Ego, Causes, Sometimes

  "Zac Efron and Claire Danes Interview ME AND ORSON WELLES". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 24, 2009.

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• For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.

  Anatole France

  Stars, Sky, Republic

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• The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught and carried safely home.

  Winston Churchill

  Home, Butterfly, Journey

  Winston Churchill (1965). “A Man of Destiny: Winston S. Churchill”

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• Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.

  Eric Hoffer

  Echoes, Events, Half

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

  Oscar Wilde

  Women, Romance, Sense Of Humor

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.51, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Chock them so ... full of "facts" they feel stuffed, but absolutely "brilliant" with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving.

  Ray Bradbury

  Moving, Thinking, Information

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.30, Hamilton Books

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• I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book... I felt alive and engaged and positively brilliant, bursting with ideas, brimming with memories of other books I've loved.

  Nora Ephron

  Memories, Book, Reading

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• There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine; And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems, Steeply the thickets to his floods decline.

  Robert Bridges

  Hills, Silver, Shady

  Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

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• When you have a brilliant sun, which is a source of vision, the light from the sun shines through every window of the house, and the brightness of its light inspires you to open all the curtains. In the vision of the Great Eastern Sun, no human being is a lost cause.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Light, House, Shining

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• All in Dali is indeed contrived, a brilliant illustration of his own psyche as he understands it, as opposed to how it truly may have been.

  Wendy Beckett

  Illustration, Deception, May

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• The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color of its surroundings.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Mirrors, Color, Surroundings

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• Vermilion alone could render the brilliant red of the tiles on the opposite slope. The orange of the soil, the harsh crude colors of the walls and greenery, the ultramarine and cobalt of the sky achieved an extreme harmony that was sensually and musically ordered.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Wall, Orange, Color

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• It is not the most brilliant that excel in film, but the most patient!

  Martin Scorsese

  Excellence, Patient, Film

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• I think pre-nups are brilliant. I get very well taken care of.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Taken, Thinking, Care

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• T was a brilliant feeling to make my debut and to hear the crowd chanting my name. It made me play much better.

  Theo Walcott

  Play, Names, Feelings

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• Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all.

  David Stockman

  Ideas, Great Depression, Scholar

  "David Stockman on his Book and the Bailouts". Mises Institute Interview, mises.org. September 6, 2013.

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• And yet, winning is like a welcome drink going down your throat, like a beautiful embrace. It is brilliant while it lasts but it isn't forever. The high eventually melts away and the journey of life begins afresh. The truly remarkable among us visit these highs periodically; winning then becomes a journey, a graph where each point is crucial but is in reality merely part of a larger curve.

  Harsha Bhogle

  Beautiful, Journey, Reality

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• No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't much affect the historical river of figuration. I predict that in 50 years and in 300 years, figurative art will still be strong and important.

  Mark Kostabi

  Art, Strong, Intelligent

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• We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Honesty, Truth, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1901). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”

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• When a sunbeam falls on a transparent substance, the substance itself becomes brilliant, and radiates light from itself. So too Spirit bearing souls, illumined by Him, finally become spiritual themselves, and their grace is sent forth to others. From this comes knowledge of the future, understanding of mysteries, apprehension of hidden things, distribution of wonderful gifts, heavenly citizenship, a place in the choir of angels, endless joy in the presence of God, becoming like God, and, the highest of all desires, becoming God.

  Saint Basil

  Spiritual, Fall, Angel

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• There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to be done. And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Famous Inspirational, Believe, Mind

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.168, Cornell University Press

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• I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in computer science, so people in computers were brilliant people from mathematics, physics, music, zoology, whatever. They loved it, and no one was really in it for the money.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Degrees, Lucky

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